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Introduction A few years ago, if you would have asked me to define DevOps , my answer would have sounded something like “Mumble mumble automation, mumble, automation, mumble mumble, infrastructure-as-code, mumble mumble, strategery.” Thinking that DevOps equated to automation had mostly to do with the fact that most of the DevOps people I talked to and articles I read really only spoke about automation with only indirect references to anything else. I mplementing automation is definitely a part of what it means to... [More]

A Positive Outlook There is no shortage of industry research that paints a positive landscape for DevOps. For instance, the recent nationwide case study presented by IBM DevOps indicated a 50% increase in code quality and 70% decrease in downtime. A key attributable to this success was the development of a collaborative culture, where IT and business began to come together as a closer knit team to deliver products effectively (“Nationwide,” 2016). Without a Strong Foundation ... [More]

SAFe defines the Program Board as follows http://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/ As a matter of fact, Rational Team Concert (RTC) does not, including IBM's additional SAFe support, provide a similar visualization out-of-the-box . Therefore we have decided to implement a brand new feature named " show dependencies " into the Timebox Planning Widget V2.9.1 This Feature is planned to be available as freeware in coming fall 2016. Feature... [More]

IBM ® Rational ® Collaborative Lifecycle Management facilitates domain and cross domain management activities Two of the new features in Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 6.0.2 – custom tags and support for SAFe 4.0 - are what users need to manage their mega projects. A large project consists of hundreds or even thousands of components. Components, as you would know, are not just binaries and source code but also test cases, design documents, scripts, configuration files, environment... [More]

Is Scrum and/or SAFe the Framework you want to go for? Are you in Systems Engineering with HW, FW and SW Teams and need to maintain a rolling lookahead plan with lots of dependencies ? Are your Teams distributed all over the world? If you can answer some of the questions with YES I highly recommend you to give the brand new Rational Team Concert Timebox Planning Widget V2.8.7 with SAFe support a chance. It fully supports SAFe on the Levels Value Stream , Program and Team Of course we... [More]

Last month had the opportunity to lead a six-person IBM agile adoption team in starting an Agile Release Train (ART) in support of a larger telecom project (1000+ users) in Mumbai, India; using the newly released version 4.0 of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe® 4.0). In this post, I summarize the business drives, QuickStart approach, and some Early Results collected during the Inspect & Adapt session we conducted at the end of the three-week iteration. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) While I have had the pleasure of leading several... [More]

Hi Amy et. al. We at Siemens have implemented a brand new RTC Widget called "Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support" I'm going to present this at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas. Session DOP-3145 If you can't make I would appreciate your feedback. Please have a look at the short videos on youtube. Would this support your work with SAFe at IBM? How to use the new Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support https://youtu.be/uUz67-Yktec How to setup the new Timebox Planning Widget with SAFe Support... [More]

In the Old Days, for the Agile ALM for Scrum process template, there was an RMC "Helper File" which contained RTC/SCUM Process Guidance for Workitems, Roles, Workflows, etc. https://jazz.net/agile-alm-scrum-practices/#practice.mgmt.scrum.base-ibm/guidances/practices/defect_wi_type_F1B47105.html Are there any plans to create a similar artifact for the SAF3 3.0 Program & Portfolio Templates? Thanks.

This blog post has been a collaborative effort with Marianne Hollier, Cindy VanEpps, Roger LeBlanc and Anita Rass Wan Ever jump into a TV series in the middle of a season? Welcome to Episode 5, Season 1 of DevOps Scenarios for Middleware. For an overview of this riveting blog series, check out the overview blog here. You can be a lean startup in an Enterprise. Sounds like an oxymoron, right? Yet Enterprises must innovate to stay alive in today’s transparent, interconnected and fast-changing world. In The Lean Startup , Eric Ries... [More]